BBC spent £250,000 for better view of Vienna at Euro 2008 It has to be said that the general headline-grabbing tone of this Guardian article is edging dangerously close to the kind of tabloid generalisations that are the normal reserve...
Posts from January 2010
Changing the perspective
Living in the past
'Set BBC targets to partner its rivals', says ex-Channel 4 chief From the tone of Andy Duncan's Oxford Media Convention speech, you get the impression that he thinks that he's still living in the year 2007, because subsequent events have...
We'll keep turning on the box
As it's announced that BBC iPlayer has had over 100 million requests, and the Corporation adds more and more ways to catch up on missed TV, you'd be forgiven if you thought that traditional TV was on the way out. And quickly too.
Not the only game in town
Cost of TV sport to tumble as Ofcom turns screw on Sky Some people appear to be rather puzzled as to why the Conservatives in particular seem ambivalent towards Ofcom's move to lower wholesale pay-TV sports pricing, and it's not...
Swallowing your pride
BBC admits it went too far in U2 tie-up On the surface this just appears to be yet another complaint from the commercial media sector (this time, the RadioCentre) along the lines of "How dare the BBC devote time, publicity...
Not just the money
Jonathan Ross quits BBC Maybe Jonathan Ross jumped – but the BBC weren't standing in his way It was blatantly obvious that something like this was going to happen, especially following the perhaps over-the-top clampdown that engulfed the BBC following...
